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Excellent work I have actually used another GraphQL to GraphViz program before, but I don’t believe it allowed me to manipulate and output manipulated data. This is really awesome though. I’ll have to give it a try next time I need to graphviz my schema for my designers. By the way it also made me think it would be awesome to have some sort of jq [1] like syntax to query GraphQL Schemas with.

[1]: https://stedolan.github.io/jq/

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Thanks a ton for the feedback!

You're right maybe the wording is wrong: query more than manipulate. By the way, querying like jq might be an interesting new feature. Don't know exactly in which direction it should go / what it should do / how exactly it should look like (grammar)

N.B.: I have another project called jql which is actually a simpler - and faster - jq made with Rust https://github.com/yamafaktory/jql

Wow that’s awesome you actually have a jq like implementation. Hmmm since it’s a graph maybe you could go with something like openCypher [0] or GQL [1] (possibly gremlin too) or maybe you could even query it with GraphQL (although GraphQL only traverses down in a tree fashion)? Although some sort of simpler jq like syntax might be able to make more sense. It would need to be able to branch out somehow. I think even an emmet [2] like syntax might work well.

[0]: http://www.jcc.com/resources/jcc-blogs-menu/blog-database-dr...

[1]: https://www.gqlstandards.org/gql-blogs

[2]: https://docs.emmet.io/cheat-sheet/

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